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THE NATIONAL GAME.

THE first two and the last two League clubs
are Western clubs.
MANY Cincinnati clergymen attend the
games there regularly.
ORR has resigned his position as captain OF
the Metropolitans, and has been succeeded -oy
O'Brien.
EsTERBRooK, once of the New Yorks, has
been released by the Metropolitans and can
now play where he likes.
ONE-ARMED DAILY, the Cleveland pitcher,
wears a specially designed wire-protector for
his one hand while at bat.
OVER forty International games have been
won by run, which serves to show that the
clubs are pretty well matched.
CHARLES BALDWIN, pitcher Of the Detroit
Club, has been suspended indefinitely, with
ut.pay, for indifferent playing.
Two of the greatest teams ever organized,
the St Louis Browns and Chicagos, are both
managed by players, and both managers ure
first baSemen.
THOUGH the Chicagos have won seven out
of nine games with the New Yorks and seven
out of nine with Philadelphia, they have
only won four out of ten with Washington.
A NEW play has been introduced in order
to get first-base on called balls. After bat
ter has had four balls called on the pitcher
and has less than three strikes against hlmsel,
he changes his position to the opposite side OF
the plate and the chances are strongly IN
favor of the next ball being called.
AT a special meeting of the International
League held at Buffalo, that city, Bingham
ton, Newark, Rochester, Syracuse, Scranton
and Utica were represented. The Newark ana
Jersey City clubs were censured for playing
exhibition games on Sunday. The salaries OF
the umpires We're increased from s2O0 to ) S9o.
THE NATIONAL LEAGUE RECORD
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LATER NEWS.

MARY A. KEANEY, seventeen years old,
and her sister Catherine, aged sixteen, were
drowned in each others arms while bathing
in lake at Spring Valley, n. Y. They were
from New York.
REUBEN ]. HUDSON (colored) was lynched
near Redan, Ga, for assaulting white
woman. and Reuben Coles (also coloredl met
similar fate for like otfense in Surry
County, Va.
THE Maryland Democratic State Conven-
ton at Baltimore nominated Elihu E. Jack
son for Governor, William Pinkney Whyte
for Attorney General and l.. Victor BauSh-
man for Comptroller. The platform endorses
Clevelands administration, favors a reduc-
ton of taxes by Congress, and opposes the
introduction of foreign paupers and convlcts.
A LARGE delegation Of prominent citizens
from Kansas City called at the White House
on Wednesday and invited the President and
Mrs Cleveland to visit their city in the fall.
Mr. Cleveland accepted the invitation.
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NEWS SUMMARY
Eastern and Middle States.

Two New Yorkers-Michael ]. Dixon and
John P. Ryan-were instantly killed by light
ming while fishing from small boat off
Staten Island.
GREAT damage has been done to crops by
the recent heavy rains, particularly in Penn
sylvania and New Jersey.
THREE small boys, inmates of the Chill
dren's Nursery at West Brighton, Staten
Island, were drowned while bathing.
OWING to heavy falling off in the strength
of the Knights of Labor in Massachusetts,
steps have been taken to combine Districts 81
and II.
THREE miners were fatally injured by the
gas explosion in No. Slope of the Susque-
hanna Coal Company at Nanticoke, Penn;
the same mine in which twenty-six men and
bows were entombed on December Is, loe3,
and in which their bodies still lie.
IMMENSE damage has been wrought IN
Western Massachusetts, and Eastern New
Hampshire by floods Many bridges and
mill-dams have been swept away, the beds
of railroads washed out and travel lmpeded.
Contrary to first reports, the loss OF life has
been small
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ATRAIN-WRECKER'S A FATE.
A Man Hanged for a Cowardly
Crime in Nebraska.

A Man HanSeu lor a. So""S
Crime in Nebraska.
David Hoffman has been hanged at Ne
braska City, Neb., for wrecking Missouri
Pacific passenger train near Dunbar, on the
night of the l1th of January last. He nearly
tainted when the death warrant was read. On
parting with his brothers he broke down en-
tirely and stoutly protested his innocence.
He was so weak that he could not walk to the
gallows alone, and was assisted by the minis.
tiers. He cried during prayers on the scaffold
and was crying when the trap fell When
asked if he had any thing to say he replied:
"Nothing. I can't say anything"
The trap was then sprung, and in eight and
one-half minutes ne was dead. The neck was
broken.
The train wrecked by Hoffman and James
Bell, his accomplice, was the Missouri Pacific
passenger train from Omaha to Kansas City:
It was thrown from the track about one and
one-half miles northwest of Dunbar, small
station ten miles west of Nebraska City. 1t
consisted of locomotive, a baggage-car,
palace car and sleeper. The night was
bright with moonlight, and it was 11:l5
o'clock when the train was thrown from the
track. The train had just rounded curve
when it struck misplaced rail, leaving the
track and going into the creek, some thirty or
forty 1eeU DelO". l. lie SuSiile III ohc .oo'o
from the train, and running about hun
dred yards along the side of the track
turned halfway over, catching the Ell
pineer. James Dewitt, under it, push
ing the throttle-valvc through his body
near the heart and burying it some six
inches in the frozen ground. The fire.
man escaped with a few slight bruises
The brave engineer must have seen the
danger, for the lever was thrown back over
the centre some three notches. The train in
leaving the track did not follow the engine,
but went down draw into the creek. Every
car, save the chair car, turned over on its
side, and none of the passengers was fataliy
hurt. although about forty were bruised and
injured. The express messenger, Frank Cheno-
wirth, had his skull fractured by the iron
safe turning over on him. On examination
of the track where the train had run OIL 1t was
found that the fish-plates had been removed
from the south rail, the spikes drawn and the
rail showed toward the centre, making an
open switch.
The house of John Hoffman, n brother OF
David Hoffman, was about quarter OF q
mile from the scene Of the wreck. he said
that he had seen two men rnn away after the
train was derailed. The tracks of the men
were found, and they were such as would
have been made by the foot coverings worn
by David Hoffman and James Bell. Those
two men were arrested and taken to NebraS-
ka City to prevent their being lynched
James Ball turned States evidence and was
sentenced to ten years imprisonment Hof-
man was put on trial on April Il for murder in
the first degree The jury found him guilty
after half an hours deliberation
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his SOUTHERN TRIP.
How Cleveland is to be Received on
His Way to Atlanta.


His Way to Atlanta.
President Cleveland's proposed visit to the
Piedmont Exposition is attracting great
attention throughout the South, says an
Atlanta dispatch. Mr.. H. W. Grady, who
has the matter in charge, says: "The
President will be welcomed by the
largest crowd ever gathered in a
Southern State 1t will be the first
time this generation has ever seen Lem
ocratic President, and our advices show
that the attendance will be overwhelm-
ing. The Presidential train will leave
Washington on Sunday night, Octo-
ber IL, and will reach Atlanta on Monday
nigh. The President will spend Tuesday
and Wednesday in Atlanta. He will be es-
corted through Virginia by Governor Lee
and his staff, through North Carolina by
Governor Scales and his staff, and
through South Carolina by Governor
Richardson and his staff, all Of whom will go
with him to Atlanta. At the Georgia line he
will be met by Governor Gordon and staff
At Atlanta he will be met by the Governors
and United States Senators of the various
Southern States.
''It is expected that he will spend Tuesday
looking at the Exposition, and on Wednes-
day will hold public reception and make a
short address. We are arranging for an old
fashioned jubilee that will exceed anything
on record.n
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PROMINENT PEOPLE.

SIR CHARLES dixie is to visit this coun-
try shortly.
THE brother of the King of Siam Is soon to
pass through this country.
PROFESSOR ScoTT, of Rutgers College, is
writing history of New Jersey.
SPEAKER CARLIsLE's daughter Is said to
be the prettiest girlat the Greenbrier Sulphur
Springs.
MRS. CLEVELAND will visit Atlanta when
the President goes there to attend the e1-
hibition.
Mr.. JOHN G. WHITTIER has never been
further than Washington from his home in
Amesbury, Mass.
STEPN1AK, the famous Nihilist writer, ex
poets to pay long visit to the United States
the coming autumn.
BLoNDIN, the rope walker, will make a
professional visit to this country in the Fall.
He is not dead, as was reported.
BISHOP WARREN, Of the Methodist Church,
is in Japan. His wife, who brought him
several millions of dollars, is in California
JAMES S. RICHARDSON, of New Orleans, is
the largest cotton planter in the world. He
has IS, ,OOJ acres in cotton and 1000 In corn.
DWIGHT L. MOODY, the evangelist, is con
templating an extended tour Of India He
thinks India firstrate field for mission
: work.
NEAL Dow has accepted an invitation tc
deliver an address on Prohibition in Massa
chusetts. He will then take part In the can
vass in New York State.
CONGRESSMAN PHELAN, Of Memphis, Is the
Youngest member of the Fiftieth Congress
He will not be thirty-one when he takes his
seat. Congressman Vandever, the oldes,
member, is seventy
GENERAL FRANCIS E. SPINNER, formerly
treasurer of the United States, is greatly en-
joying life at his mt home on Pablo Beach
Florida At e gh5y years of age he Is a.
genial and hearty as ever and welcomes
hosts Of visitors.
CARRIE M. ALL is the wonder OF Georgia
She lives about ten miles from Baxley, is ter
years old, and weighs $50 pounds She
weighed at the age of seven years l4Opounds
She is no higher than children usually at hel
age. Persons who have seen her say she Is al
broad as she is long.
GEORGE INNEss, JR. the New York animal
painter, has studio on wheels, with which
he goes up and down country roads. d:
stops at a place, sketches till he gets tired
| and then moves on. The concern IS httec
with sleeping berths The artists wife some
times accompanies him on these excursions.
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Two Cowboy Stories.

Among people living in the frontier
towns in the Western States, the stores
of the deeds of cowboys are innumerable,
and they mostly tend to show then
bravery and nobility in glowing colors.
That was cowboy who, when on the
road home from marking" with his
chum, found they were pursued by wolves.
They had barely time to ride into small
shed at the foot of hill, which was used
as a cattle refuge, when the wolves were
upon them. And then the cowboy saw
that there was hole in the door, large
enough to admit q couple of fierce beasts
that were thirsting for their blood.
Without a moments hesitation he fired
his pistol at the head already thrust
through the opening, and then down on
his knees and blocked the broken panel
with his chest, holding it there until the
wolves. tired of waiting, sought other VIC
tins! That was cowboy who miraculous
ly saved the life of little child that was
playing on the prairie near its fathers
ranch just as the great herd of cattle was
beng driven hcadlong into the stock
yard. She, pretty innocent, all Ignorant
of the terrible death that seemed lmml-
nent to the terrified mother who stood
watching the oncoming herd, was quiet
ly picking prairie-tlowers, and holding
them out delightedly, trying to entice
her mother to join her. Suddenly cow
boy perceived her danger; never needing
the possibility of his own destruction, he
gave a wild whoop, and, at racehorse
Speed, headed off the herd, just STOPPING
in his saddle as he passed the child to
lift her up in his arms and carry her to
her mother, who stood in stupor of fear
watching the great herd trampling and
roaring over the very spot where her dar-
ling had moment before been playing.
Time.
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NEWSY GLEANINGS.

OSCAR WILDE has become editor Of Lon
don journal for women.
IT is said that the cotton crop Of the United
States will be large one.
THE late S. j. Tilden owned property in
England to the amount Of $3.50, ,oOo.
REPORTS about the apple crop are discour'
aging from most sections Of the country.
GENERAL MEADE's monument in Fair
mount Park, Philadelphia, will be dedicated
on October 49,
THE Popes envoy to Ireland is engaged in
investigating the industrial and social condi-
tion Of the tenant class.
GRAPE-RoT isreported all through the Pied
mont section of Virginia, and the crop has
been virtually destroyed
The National Agricultural Department re-
port makes the decrease in the hog supply
l.50O. 900 from last year.
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Five Men Killed, Ten Injured.

A construction train Of the Chicago and
Alton, ON which were nearly 100 laborers, was
run into on Wednesday by freight train,
and the result was dreadful smashup, with
serious loss Of life. The freight train was bound
for Kansas City, and met the construction
on Owendorn Bridge, twenty-five miles from
Bloomington. These men on the construc-
ton train were killed: Morton Dunseth,
water carrier, Delavan: James Brown, Hope
dale; Frank Drake, Petersburg; Blanc
Barrows, Ashland; James Kellogg. Ten men
were wounded.
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Foreign.

CANADIAN Knights of Labor desire separa-
ton of jurisdiction from the United States.
THE corporation of Dublin has conferred
the freedom of the city on MIR. William
OBrien, editor of United Ireland, and Mr..
Patrick A. Collins, of Boston, Mass, who is
now visiting Ireland.
A CALCUTTA Gndia) dispatch reports that
the steamer Mahratta has foundered. Six
lives were lost.
AN international chess tournament is in
progress at Frankfort, Germany.
AN immense marine procession has been
held at Portsmouth, England, in honor of
Queen Victoria's Jubilee. The vessels that
paraded included the squadrons of iron
clads and cruisers, aggregating thirty
four vessels; seventy-five torpedo boats,
gunboats and iron defence ships,
divided into five 1otillas, six training
these hundreds Of smaller craft took
part in the procession, which was reviewed
BY the Queen from the Royal yacht.
AFTER long cessation of open hostilities
the Canadian officers have commenced active
warfare against the United States fishermen.
The victims are the Gloucester Mass schoon-
ers Annie w. Hodgson, Colonel j. H. French
and Argonaut. The Hodgson was
seized off Shelburne, Nova Scotia,
by the Dominion cruiser Advance, charged
with violating the customs laws in not enter
ing at the Custom House, while the French
and Argonaut lost two boats and seines
within the three-mile limit off Souris, four
teen men ON them being made prisoners.
A violent volcanic eruption has occurred on
the island of Galita, off the coast of Tunis
Streams of lava are issuing from the crater
OF the volcano, and the flames are visible for
fifty miles.
The British Cabinet has under considera.
ton the suppression of the Irish National
League.
THE ship Hotspur, one of the finest vessels
atioat, has been wrecked off the coast OF
Java.
The Pope has decided that there is no
ground for Papal interference with the
knights of Labor question.
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Another Smash Up on the B. and o.
The Pope and the X. Of Il.

Rome advices state that the conclave Of
twelve American Bishops asked by the Vati-
can for decision as to the advisability of
the Roman Catholic Church interfering with
the Knights of Labor, voted 10 to 2 against
intervention. The technical decision reached
was that "There there was no occasion for
the Church to make special deliverance re-
earding the Knights of Labor"
The Congregation at Rome after examining
the question, arrived at the same decision,
and the secretary of the congrega-
tion communicated this resolution to
Cardinal Gibbons, of Baltimore. Sub
sequently an attempt was made from the
United States to induce the Vatican to re-
verse this decision, but the Holy See refused
to reopen the question.
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THE INTERNAL REVENUES.
A Years Cost of Collection-The
Annual ReceiDCs.

A Years Cost of Collectfon-The
Annual Receipts.
Joseph s. Miller, Commissioner OF Internal
Revenue, has submitted to Secretary Fair
child preliminary report Of the operations
of that service during the fiscal year ended
June 30, 1887. The total collections from all
sources of internal revenue for the fiscal year
just ended were Sis, 1886, ISL, which amount
has been accounted for and covered into the
Treasury. This is &, ,932, 1888 more than the
collections for the previous fiscal year. The
cost of collection was about s. ,075, 900. The
receipts from the different objects OF taxa.
tion, as compared with the receipts OF the
previous year, were as follows: Spirits, $685.
SEQ, ,322, a decrease of $S,262,9 "a; tobacco,
$50, ,1OS, ,O67, an increase Of 81, ,2o0, 7O5; fer.
mented liquors, s21, ,s22, 1877, an increase OF
1925, ,456; oleomargarine, $723, 3,94s, all in
crease; banks and bankers, "a, ,2Ss, all in
crease; miscellaneous, M7,945, an increase
of $21. .4S5.
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To-MoRRow'S FORTUNES.
My dreams, like ships that went.t to sea,

My dreams, like ships that went.D seq, -
And got becalmed in SUMMER climes,
No more returned, are lost to me,
Faint echoes of those hopeful times;
And have learned, with doubt oppressed
There are no birds in next years nest. -
The seed is sowed in balmy spring,
The summers sun to vivify, -
With his warm kisses ripening -
To golden harvest by and by,
Got caught by drought, like all the rest
There are no birds in next years nest.
The stock bought at eighty-nine
Broke down at once to twenty-eight; - =
Some squatters jumped my silver mine,
My own convention smashed my slateI
No more in futures I'll invest
There are no birds in next years nest.
-Burdette, in Brooklyn Eaglc-
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Mr.. Blaine Coming Home.

An Edinburgh dispatch says that Mr..
James G. Blaines present intention is to start
for New York in about fortnight. He has
been having good time and has improved in
health, but he longs for home again: Next
sachs with his family. Both he and his fam
lily are greatly enjoying their visit to Scot
landn
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THE Secretary of War, acting under au-
thority OF Congress, has directed that l40
pieces of unserviceable artillery be turned
over to the Gettysburg Battlefield Associa-
ton. These guns will be of the same pattern
as those used by the Union forces in the bat
tie, Pnd Will be placed in the same positions
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M L'HosrE, the French aeronaut, recent
" fell with his balloon into the sea some
leagues away from the British coast: he was
rescued after twenty hours Struggle 10 Keep
aaoat by passing steamer.
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ALLEN HARP, boy sixteen years old, shos
himself through the head ovsr the grave OF
oct dog in the grounds OF the Bryn Mawr
Hotel, near Philadelphia, a few nights agd:
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A Boartiine.House Tragedy.


Charles j. Wernan, of Paterson, n. j.,
lately in the employ of an insurance company.
got into dispute a few days ago at Grand
RAPIDS, Mich, with his landlady, Mrs.
Bonfrey. She demanded pay for fifteen
weeks board, and Wernan repudiated
part of the bill. They had some
words, but not of such nature as to attract
the attention of Mrs. Bonfrey's daughter,
Lydia Chute, who was playing upon the
piano in the adjoining room. Soon, however,
Miss Chute heard two pistol shots Rush
ing into the other room she saw her mother
living motionless upon the arm Of rocking
chair in the bay window, dead. Wernan,
with the smoking revolver in his hand, lay
upon the floor unconscious. He lived about
ten minutes.
The bullet entered Mrs. Bonfrey's brain.
To no other cause than the dispute about the
board bill can the tragedy be attributed. From
photographs and letters found among Wer-
mans effects, he is thought to have wife and
five children, three daughters and two sons. His
wife is an invalid, and in her last letter to
him expresses fears that she will not recover
and hopes that he will soon return home.
Upon Wernan's body were found two empty
pocketbooks and an unsigned check for 500
on the First National Bank of Paterson.
Another Smash Up on the b. and o.
An accident occurred to the Philadelphia
and Chicago express on the Baltimore and
Ohio Railway at York, Ind, Wednesday
morning which resulted in the death
of the engineer and fireman of the passenger
train and the injury of the freight engineer.
The train left Chicago at & O'Clock p NJ, and
at York, owing to misplaced switch, ran
into siding and into a freight train which
was standing there. Engineer c. Cramer
and Fireman Edward Kooxen of the pas
senger train were both killed, ard w. K.
Devine, the engineer of the freight,
was badly injured, but will recover it is
thought. No one else was hurt. Thirty
minutes before the passenger train passed
York an excursion train passed safely over
the switch, and after the accident it was
found that the switch lock had been broken
open with all oaken club.
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COMING FAIRS.
A List of the State and Provincial
Fairs to be Held in 1887.

The American Agriculturist for August
publishes the following list of State and
Provincial Fairs to be held this year:
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Snakes Hatcbed INV &c,

About two weeks ago a little English
lad named Sorby, who lives in Fetterman,
took basket and went to the neighbor-
hood of Wallace Run for berries On the
road home while crossing field, he found
number Of round, white balls about as
large as walnuts. These he put in his
basket and carried home. As soon as his
father saw them he pronounced them tur-
ties eggs, and as they had at that time a
hen that was anxious 10 set, and, in fact,
had been setting around on brickbats,
Jumps of coal and other things of like
nature, he concluded he would try an ex-
pertinent just for curiosity. So the sup
posed turtle eggs were placed under the
hen carefully, and she was left alone in her
glory.
About a week after that, one bright
morning, the family were startled by the
greatest commotion in the chicken-yard.
Upon running to learn the cause, what was
their horror to see the place literally alive
with blacksnaies, that were darling in
and out beneath the old setting hen and
"lggllng around at great rate. The sup
posed turtle eggs were those of black
snake, and the hen had Matched them out.
The snakes were, on an average, about six
inches long, and as lively as crickets. They
would protrude their ugly heads from be-
meath the old hens wings and dart their
little red tongues out at any one who would
approach them.
The Sorby family looked on in astenish-
ment until one of the snakes wrapped itself
round its foster-mother's neck and began
to choke her to death. Then they pro
cured sticks and went to work killing off
the horrid brood. After killing twenty
eight, the remainder-about half dozen
that had taken refuge under the old hen
were allowed to live, and it is said that she
takes as much care of them as if they were
little chicks Wherever she goes they fol-
low, and seem to know her cluck. She
diligently for them all day, but
no one has yet seen them eat. at night
they crawl under her wings and sleep
soundly. 1t is a queer family.-Neio
Brighton Pa Ne,cs